Thanks for the info, Paulo. I'm not very au fait with codecs, which is why I asked. It's not really 'my thing', but it is nice, sometimes to be able to play a disk. Actually, to be really honest, it just peeves me that someone can try to stop me viewing something that I've legally bought :-) It's a bit like saying that I can buy a book, but I can't read it on the train, in bed or in the bath :-)
Anne,
what breaks the dvd protection is libdvdcss (illegal in certain countries). This is why in linux (or in windows, if you use vlc) there is no need of setting any region in the dvd player.
However, the MPAA (http://www.mpaa.org/) has financed a long battle, since the source code appeared on the net.
If you like to know the whole history, then check for instance, this link (despite of the name, it is just a magazine):
http://www.out-law.com/page-4335
/Paulo Roma.
On Monday 01 January 2007 20:49, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
Thanks for the info, Paulo. I'm not very au fait with codecs, which is why I asked. It's not really 'my thing', but it is nice, sometimes to be able to play a disk. Actually, to be really honest, it just peeves me that someone can try to stop me viewing something that I've legally bought :-) It's a bit like saying that I can buy a book, but I can't read it on the train, in bed or in the bath :-)
Anne,
what breaks the dvd protection is libdvdcss (illegal in certain countries). This is why in linux (or in windows, if you use vlc) there is no need of setting any region in the dvd player.
However, the MPAA (http://www.mpaa.org/) has financed a long battle, since the source code appeared on the net.
If you like to know the whole history, then check for instance, this link (despite of the name, it is just a magazine):
I've read the story of DVD-Jon over the years, and cheered along with everyone else (almost everyone) when the courts upheld his rights. No-one will ever convince me that we are doing anything wrong in viewing a DVD that we own. We have bought the right to view it, and they took our money. That's a contract in my eyes. And we're not the ones that broke the contract.
Anne
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